Attitude is everything.....Attitude changes everything...

Hello everyone...based on my last entry, i would like to continue writing about attitude...because i think attitude really is playing a vital role in our living...so, then, came an idea of sharing it all with u...Hopefully, everyone can have a change of attitude from negative to positive.....

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, then circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think, say, or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company, a family, a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. 

We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you. We are in charge of our attitudes. 

Let's read this story as an inspirational beginning for all of u out there.... 


ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING

Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!"
He was a unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.
Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"
Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood.' I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life."
"Yeah, right, it's not that easy", I protested.
"Yes it is," Jerry said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live life."
I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.
Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the back door open one morning, and was held up at gunpoint by three armed robbers. While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma center.
After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body. I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins. Wanna see my scars?"
I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place. "The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door", Jerry replied. "Then, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I chose to live.
"Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?", I asked.
Jerry continued, "The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read, 'He's a dead man'. I knew I needed to take action."
"What did you do?", I asked.
"Well, there was a big, burly nurse shouting questions at me", said Jerry. She asked if I was allergic to anything. "Yes", I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply... I took a deep breath and yelled, "Bullets!" Over their laughter, I told them, "I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead."
Jerry lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything.

Attitude is everything.  A person who has the ability to look beyond the outside of a person or what they might project....is a person who knows how to reflect upon other people's needs and know themself well.  They know how to react to people.  They do not rush to judgement on others and look honestly at any given situation and do not try to make themselves look better than everyone else.  They do not seek all of the attention....they give others a chance to shine.  These people know how to deal with a stress situation and know that all things can usually be fixed with the right frame of mind and that getting angry, upset and out of sorts does nothing to resolve an issue.  A person who has a determined mindset,  can see the bright side of all things and has sensibility to go with it; and it is evident that these types of individuals who have the right "Attitude" go further than those who believe their smarts are the best part of their life. Please note that there is nothing wrong with being highly educated but, being educated does not necessarily give one a ticket to Success.  Education must be mixed with interpersonal skills.

In our quest for the right attitude.....we must remember that our philosophy is not the only one either.  What our principles and knowledge is; is not the beginning or the end of all things.  Meaning, other people's principles and knowledge counts also and that all of us can learn something to make our life better from each other.  Yes, we can learn from the drunk on the street, if we so choose.  When we look down on the little old man lying in the street dog drunk; what put him there?  How could you possibly be there and do you have the courage to try to help the him or a person like him?  Remember; Attitude is everything.  Trying to help another soul is part of the "Attitude Is Everything."  None of us want to be there; how do we know how far we are from this awful thing or something like it?  Being thankful is part of the right attitude also and being humble and know that we are all "sinners, saved by grace" so to speak.  By the skin of our teeth we just might have missed some bad things in life. 

 -mAmAzUe-